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Show OVER EIGHT HUNDRED i!iiiio:is CI PROFITS EASiiED BY MINES ; If mining really needed any testimonial fto convince the skeptical that It Is one of (he greatest and most profitable of American Ameri-can Industries. It Is furnished by the 111 , mining companlsa which have reported ; to the Mining World as having paid dlvt- dende In 11L The achievement of these , 121 companies-na It Is truly a remarka ble one ta the payment to eherholdrs since In corporation of divtdenda amounting amount-ing to 11.M7.I4. When the few companies participating In theae great disbursements are taken Into consideration, eome Idea tin be ar rived at aa to the prominent part the mineral min-eral Industry has had In the achievement of America's Industrial supremel y. It la of Interest to know tliat of the va-rlous va-rlous metals, copper has been the greatest great-est factor In dividend eernlngs. for with only twentv-three copper mining companies com-panies participating, over two-thirds of the 2S11.47.J4 was derived from the profits made from the red metal mines. Of the 434.1(1. 444 psld In 1U by IK America mines and works, the TTnlted fttatee contributed f 2J.2.e7T, Canada 4.;9.SS and Mexico. 2.la;.64 The balance, bal-ance, f F..I7P.X43. was contributed by the . i i a SMtaUsrswal uompenlea . . Purina the present year the eighty-five properties, classed as gold-ellver-leed-aluv producers, hsvs paid to shareholders In dividends. U4.4IS.7t. with the Golds field Consolidated as the largest contributor contribu-tor with .t. Tonopah. a silver producer largely, la second, with 800.nu0. Record of Coppers. The twentv-three copper properties contributing con-tributing to the 111 total have dlaburaed I1J.I47.44I. with Anaconds under Its merger lending with H.-'JO.W. Superior and Pittsburg, which rsnke second, with 11 .121.121. baa only this dividend to Its credit end It was made In closing up business prior to Its being taken over by Calumet and Arlrona. Utah Copper la. IhtrA erltl. St 1 .U 1 S Kta-ht securities holding corporatlona. wltose Interssts sr. centwred slmoat entirely en-tirely In the copper properties, have paid , tn their ehareholders this vesr. M.MV1. . of wblrh amount Amalgamated contributed contribut-ed li.ftiMTs. and Paeipe, Dodge 4s Co.. Ii m.iss. But little leee than the dividends declared de-clared bv the eec rltles hcldlng corporations corpora-tions Is the deetsraHon of sis metallurgies! metallurgi-es! companies, wblrh. during the preeent veer. hav. dlabureed Iv. 775.343. American Ameri-can Bmeltlnc snd inning company lesrts with 3 74-1. ooo. with l'nlt.d tststes Bmeltlnc. Bmelt-lnc. Pennine snd Mining company seoond with Il.toi.sM Ths Mine That Paid. The accompanying table gtvee the amount of dlvldende paid during M.iy: Company Amounl. Aaaka M.xiran I ShVeoo Alaska Treadwell ine.ooe Amalgamated Copper 7SS.4S Armro. Mexico sni.ixvi Arizona Copper M.S1I Bavr Con.. Ontario 4i: pnoon end Montana '4,noo Buffalo. Ontario . JO.OOe Bunker Mill end Sullivan SI. 750 Camp Bird. Colo 1M.SOO Ch.mpion. Michigan ion. not) Cllir Alaska ; one Conl.gae. Ontario too. ooo Crown Reserva, Ontario H.44! frontier. Wis. S.717 , Hn-ls. Ida 10 ooe Ho.pe.take. P 10S.0O0 International Nlckal. Rfd 1.11 S Kendall Moot l.aoe t u. kv Tiger. Meslrn 15.750 , Manhattan-Big 4 X.r. 15.21 Vl,-n lead. pM 41.750 Von -Madonna. Colo .... 10 Ooe U.mtesunui I. Mexico 17 oo National. Nav 75. OAS .") P. David. Wla. . .oo Parro. Mont It.4; S.'hoenh.rr-W.ltoa looo Tuolumne. Mont l?0.0oo fnlled Verde, Arts tn one R asp No. I. . D MOO |